We thus see that a bone receives hardness and rigidity from its mineral, and tenacity and elasticity from its animal matter.
This is a hard, glistening, white substance, containing only two and a half per cent of animal matter.
For a long time, the new portion consists largely of animal matter, and so is tender and pliable.
No doubt much more acid would have been secreted had the leaves been excited by animal matter, but this would have rendered the analysis more difficult.
It is also found in animal matter; in short, it may be discovered in greater or less quantity, in the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms.
It exists also in some plants, that bear a strong analogy toanimal matter in their chemical composition.
Dumeril, the intestine of the larva grows gradually longer and longer, and its diet becomes that of herbs, the adult preferring vegetable food to animal matter.
Many of these Coleoptera feed on animal matter in a state of putrefaction.
They may be kept in an aquarium for many years by feeding them on animal matter.
The genus Trox, which belongs to the same group, generally inhabits sandy countries, and has its body nearly always covered with earth or dust; it lives on vegetable substances, or on animal matter in a state of decomposition.
This is the point from which I start in the preservation of animal matter, and the art of embalming.
As soon as life ceases in animal matter, disorganization commences; the constituent elements separate, to be variously recombined, and to give birth to new compounds.
A hard crust which forms on the teeth, and is composed of salivary mucus, animal matter, and a compound of lime.
In infancy the bones are composed almost wholly of animal matter.
Approximately 80 percent of the diet is animal matter; adult and larval beetles, ants, and caterpillars are the most frequently eaten items.
In spring and summer they eat primarily animal matter (89 percent and 82 percent respectively) and spend most of their feeding time in the tree tops.
Its solution, when left exposed to the open air, at first of a golden yellow, becomes soon greenish, and ere long putrefies, as a solution of animal matter would do in similar circumstances.
The same three alkalis have an acrid, and somewhat urinous taste; the first two are energetic solvents of animal matter; and the three combine with oils, so as to form soaps.
Pelletier and Caventou, a triple compound of the colouring substance, and an animal matter contained in cochineal, combined with an acid added to effect the precipitation.
The trench, below the plate of animal matter, was filled with clay.
On this plate of animal matter, which had been placed on the edge of the original green sward, was a covering of loose earth, about two inches in thickness, which might have fallen from the roof and sides of the chamber.
Immediately below the plate of animal matter a trench had been cut, about fifteen inches deep, and two tiers of round oak timber had been placed in it.
This determination acquires significance because it is one of the early substances produced by the decomposition of animal matter.
The amount due to sewage or animal matter is considered to be all over .
In such the living crust forms within its substance not only tenacious bands of animal matter, but great quantities of crystallized spicula, sometimes of a calcareous, at others of a siliceous, nature.
From all stagnant places, from all the sinks of overcrowded humanity, from fermenting vegetable and from putrefying animal matter, there are constantly arising poisonous exhalations to do their work of destruction.
Wounds received during dissection occasionally have unpleasant consequences from the absorption of animal matter.
For obvious reasons it happens only in children, before the completion of the ossific process, or in whom there still exists a predominance of animal matter.
The shell is chiefly made of carbonate of lime (chalk) held together by animal matter.
Shell consists of a basis of animal matter in which carbonate of lime (chalk) is deposited, the whole being poured out or secreted by the skin or mantle of the mollusk.
By the action of the cilia they are enabled to swim freely in the water, also to obtain their food, which consists of minute Algæ or fragments of animal matter.
It is also of different chemical composition from the cell-wall, being allied in this respect to animal matter.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "animal matter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
